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Ron Purewal
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ok, one thing should be clear at the outset: you're trying to fill in a gap in the logic. (in fact, there's a literal gap to fill in!) here's a diagram type thingy: euro companies emerge AND euro companies take over euro market AND u.s. market emerges AND ---- THEREFORE u.s. companies will replace euro market sales with u.s. market sales we currently have facts asserting that the u.s. firms will lose their hold on the euro market. however, we have nothing asserting that the u.s. firms will gain a hold on the u.s. market, the second half of the conclusion. therefore, we need an assertion that says, or implies, that the u.s. firms will gain a hold in the u.s. market (i.e., the euro firms won't take over the u.s. market as well). (a) irrelevant: - recent increases are unrelated to maintaining production in the future - recent increases in production have nothing to do with the main logic gap (ensuring that u.s. firms will have a hold on the u.s. market) (b) irrelevant: - this has nothing to do with anything related to the argument (c) correct this statement strongly suggests that the u.s. firms will dominate the u.s. market for the same reasons that the euro firms will dominate the euro market. (d) doesn't help - we know that the u.s. firms will lose the euro market anyway, so it doesn't matter whether that market grows or not (e) WEAKENS the argument - if the u.s. market is very small, then it's likely that the production/revenue/etc of u.s. firms will decline rather than stay constant. -- as far as you query 'what is the best way to arrive at the correct answer': there's clearly not an extremely simple way, since gmac would not bother writing these questions if there were. the best way to figure out the underlying logic is to make a diagram (like the one i made above, with the ands and therefores), which will force you to map out the logic. |
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